Another One!

Ok, so I am trapped at a ski lodge with limited internet...so why not blog?  I have already Facebooked and Skyped and Tweeted.  I was thinking on what might make a good hook for my blogging, then my phone lit up...my Dictionary app delivering the Word of the Day.  I love words.  Why not use one as a theme for my blogging?  It's worth a short right?  I think Mary from work would approve.  It is very teachery of me to use a new word each day to guide my blogging efforts.  Any child who has ever been in my class knows I love words.  I harp on vocabulary and word choice all the time.  So it seems the thing to try when trying to get myself interested in regular blogging.  I almost typed "daily" just then...had to delete that...I don't want to commit to daily blogging...maybe weekly and for sure monthly.  I am going to try to avoid the 8 month gap again.  Mary would appreciate that. ;)

Ok so what glorious word did my Dictionary.com app deliver to me today?

Adventive - adjective - not native and usually not yet well established, as in exotic plants or animals

What the....  Ok, so maybe today was not the day to start my new blogging hook...

Well that is what I thought at first, then I remembered that I am a creative and insightful individual and I can make it work.  So...adventive...not native...exotic.  Being Puerto Rican is exotic right?  I am not native to California, though most would find that surprising I think.  I was born in Brooklyn, New York and have been in California since I was 5 years old.  I consider myself native in the sentiment of the word if not literally.  Not well established?  Well that wouldn't describe me...I do consider myself to be pretty well established in a general sense.  I am where I want to be in my profession, I am married, have a happy healthy son, have a home, a car, I enjoy my life on many levels, so yes I would consider myself established.  So adventive is not a word I would use to describe me and seems the definition aims at it being an adjective for plants or animals.  Hmmm...teacher mode here...how would I use that word in a sentence?

Polar bears are adventive in Southern California.

Not my best, but it will do.  I could always switch to the Spanish Word of the Day....hmmm...then I would have to blog in Spanish...Oh my, the Spanish Word of the Day is:

claro - adjective - clear, obvious, light

There is no way I am blogging in Spanish, no matter what message Spanish Word of the Day is sending!  Claro que si!